Long
loc · Latin script
Meaning: (i) medieval nickname for a tall person; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Longdin; (iii) from a Chinese official title/name Long
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɒŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Long is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- AIAnguilla≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BSBahamas≈1 in 1.3K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 589 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
229,374 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Anguilla, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) medieval nickname for a tall person; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Longdin; (iii) from a Chinese official title/name Long.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Long counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 229,374 | 1 in 1.4K | 229K | Long | 589 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Long | 303 |
| CA Canada | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 6 | Long | 247 |
| AU Australia | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 3 | Long | 230 |
| GR Greece | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Long | 28 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Long | 119 |
| IS Iceland | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 14 | — | — |
| BS Bahamas | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Long | 11 |
| AI Anguilla | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Long | 4 |
229,374 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Long is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, English surname from an adjective meaning “long, tall”.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
In Vietnamese, Given name of Chinese origin; cited as the posthumous/temple name of Lê Thái Tông.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long. Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
there are two sources for this name. One was a place in the state of Lu in Shandong province during the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 bc). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Longain (see Langan).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marguerite Longb. 1874FRFrench musician
- Huey Longb. 1893USAmerican politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator (1893-1935)
- Luz Longb. 1913DEGerman long jumper (1913-1943)
- Richard Longb. 1927USAmerican actor (1927-1974)
- Richard Longb. 1945GBBritish sculptor (born 1945)
- Theodore Longb. 1947USAmerican wrestling executive and former referee
- Shelley Longb. 1949USAmerican actress and comedian (born 1949)
- Nia Longb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Justin Longb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Matt Longb. 1980USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 77 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 11K | #2,280 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 579 | #2,280 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2001 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2014 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2014 | 1 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Long mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) medieval nickname for a tall person; (ii) from Irish Gaelic O Longdin; (iii) from a Chinese official title/name Long. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Long have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 229 thousand people named Long, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled long.
- How do you pronounce Long?
- A machine transcription gives /lɒŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Long?
- In the United States, the national register counted 229,374 people named Long in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Long?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/longThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Long”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.